PASS ISSUE OFFICE BOOMING
Teesports pass issue office and CCTV control room have been a big success since opening in January. With five members of staff covering all the bases twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the facilities are proving indispensable. The team report brisk business.
Anti-terror police reviewed thousands of hours of CCTV footage to help trace the movements of the 7 July suicide bombers, as well as to identify suspects in the attacks a fortnight later. A leading surveillance expert later warned that London was facing a “security nightmare” and that much-needed improvements to the capital’s ageing closed-circuit television network was necessary, provoking such groups as Croma to act.
1,000 permanent photographic identity cards have been processed along with an average of 800 visitor passes issued per month and 10,000 vehicle permits granted to traffic through the port’s No 1 Quay Gatehouse.
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